Makrobiotik oder die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern. (Macrobiotic or the Art of Prolonging Human Life.)
by Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Kanab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Reutlingen, 1811. Fourth edition (Vierte Ausgabe). The second part or volume (Zwenter Theil) of two. This is the "practical part" (praktischer Theil). Marbled paper-covered boards, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, 314 pp. + index. About good (substantial wear externally, with erosion of paper at edges, tips and spine ends; rubbing, boards; about half of gilt-lettered spine label missing; rectangular clip at top of front free endpaper, presumably to remove a previous owner's name; modest foxing; good quality paper, and binding still strong). "The word macrobiotic was originally used in literature by the German scholar Christophe Wilhelm Von Hufeland in Das Makrobiotik (1796). George Ohsawa met a descendant of Hufeland in Germany in 1958. Ohsawa first mentioned the term macrobiotic in his Japanese translation of Alexis Carrel's Man, the Unknown. It did not appear in the main text but rather in his postscript. His first textual usage of the term was in Zen Macrobiotics, which he wrote in 1959. It was published in English by Nippon Centre Ignoramus, in 1960." (3214030). Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Boojum and Snark Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2131
- Title
- Makrobiotik oder die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern. (Macrobiotic or the Art of Prolonging Human Life.)
- Author
- Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Reutlingen, 1811.
- Keywords
- MACROBIOTICS, LONGEVITY, HEALTH, HYGIENE, MEDICINE, DIET, FOODS, NATURAL HISTORY
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